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Unification Church (统一教; tǒngyī jiào), known as "The Moonies" in the US, founded by Korean-American Sun Myung Moon in Busan in 1954, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1997. [ 10 ] Sanban Puren Pai ( 三班仆人派 ; sān bān púrén pài ), a Christian sect founded by Xu Wenku in the 1990s, defined by the ministry as a cult in 1999.
Cults are often depicted as organizations that exert control over their members, sometimes through manipulation (psychology), coercion, or psychological abuse. At the same time, the label "cult" has been used in popular culture and media as a sensationalized term, contributing to stigmatization and fear of these groups, sometimes based more on ...
Militias with a statewide presence [A]; Name State Ref. Arizona Border Recon [B]: Arizona [9] [10] [11]Arizona Liberty Guard Arizona [12]Arizona State Militia Arizona [13]Southern Arizona Militia
"Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults" (Max) In 1997, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate, a celibate religious sect, died in a mass ritual suicide timed to the approach of the Hale-Bopp Comet. The deceased ...
It’s estimated that between 2,000 and 3,000 communes existed in the United States in the 1960s and ’70s. Fast-forward 50 years, and it seems that little has changed.
The group has been described as a cult by some former members. [6] Former members such as Chris Johnston, Julian Goldstein, Radhia Gleis, and Alessandra Burenin claim they were brainwashed by Jaime Gomez. Allen and other former Buddhafield members claim that they were not allowed to obtain information from outside sources, with Gomez bristling ...
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
By the time Joaquin Phoenix was born, his parents Arlyn and John Lee Phoenix had already joined the religious cult Children of God.Before leaving the the group when he was 3 years old, his parents ...